A Worn Path

Many people in the ancient world followed religions that are still important today. People were searching for answers and it seems that polytheism was not working for everyone. People began shaping their own beliefs and spreading them. Civilizations began to fall into discord and needed philosophical ideas to help reform. A great amount of thinkers pondered ideas, but only a few became well known. Although, some of the ancient religions did not last, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism affected…

Iconography The Amida Buddha is identified as Buddha rather than an anonymous man because of religious details and icons. The position he is sitting in and the way his hands are folded represents the traditional position of meditation. His position identifies him as a holy and religious man. More key details that identify the image as Buddha include the top knot on his head that symbolizes enlightenment. Along with his long ear lobes, which entail a wealthy person who wore expensive earrings…

of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. The existence of suffering is not intended to bring out a negative world view- it conveys the suffering that humanity faces: physical or mental-while trying to heal it. The Eightfold Path The Eightfold Path of Buddhism is also called the Middle Way or Middle Path. The eight parts of the path to liberation are grouped into three essential elements of Buddhist practice—moral…

In about 1500 BCE, the Aryans came to Northern India and created a religion based on traditions and ritual purity. They called this religion Hinduism. Hinduism has four major jatis or caste; the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and the Shudras with the untouchables being an unsaid fifth caste. A member of the Kshatriyas, Siddhartha Gautama, started traveling between 600 BCE and 500 BCE within Nepal and Northern India preaching kindness and how to end suffering. By the time Buddha, formerly…

Just a quick high-level update at Telemundo Beacon. 1. Unofficially temporary certification of occupancy (TCO) will be pushed back to the first week of January 2018. We are still waiting for the official announcement. 2. Front turnstile will be installed with no issues. 3. Convergint needs to work with design and the architect to revise the 4 additional turnstiles into the life safely drawings. I believe 2 of the 4 turnstiles locations may be an issue. (The turnstile by audience load in and by…

The artwork I decided to do for this essay as you can see by the title is called “China Monument: Temple of Heaven” by Wenda Gu and was created in 1998. The artworks medium is known as mixed media, which is known as, “the integrated use of different forms of media, esp within the art.”(in-text). In this artwork the media shows projects of texts and represents the spiritual aspect of it (in-text). The artwork has a mix of hair intertwined with different texts from all over the world. Gu is trying…

attain happiness were still in vain as he nearly starved himself to death, fainted in a river, and thus discontinued in humiliating defeat. He grew to realize that his life of luxury in the palace or as an ascetic in the forest could not grant him the path to freedom of obtaining true enlightenment. Just when he was about to throw in the towel he ventured to a last resort. He tried sitting under a Bodhi tree, unmoving, until he achieved enlightenment. While he meditated, Mara, the God of desire…

When attending the Rubin Museum of art, the first thing I found out, was that the museum was once a department store called Barneys. When we started our tour around the museum, we first started at the top floor called “the world is sound”. While being there, we learned a lot about Tibetan Buddhist’ ritual of music. This exhibition explored the different dimensions of sound and listening, and its many functions in the Tibetan Buddhism. The first floor we had gone to, which was the fourth floor…

Siddhartha has made many travels in the pursuit of reaching Nirvana, to have many questions answered, and to rid himself of his ego. He started out with being a member of the Brahmins as a child for he was the son of a Brahmin. He learned many hymns and verses and knew the ways of the Brahmins better than most others his age. However, he felt that “the wise Brahmins had already imparted to him the bulk and the best of their knowledge” (Hesse 5). Thus, it can be supported that teachings have a…

physical and mental attachments; Buddhist call this tanha. The third truth, called Nirodha, teaches there is a way out of our suffering by eliminating our attachments and desires. The last or fourth truth is the Magga is the path that leads out of suffering called the Noble Eightfold Path. Buddhist believe the Four Noble Truths are a realistic approach to life that closely mimics a medical diagnosis of a disease; first the disease is diagnosed, then the cause of the disease is found, and…